An 18-year-old girl from Batken, Kyrgyzstan went through invasive medical procedure for the removal of a 9-pound hairball that built and stuck inside her stomach.
Ayperi Alekseeva had a chief complaint of severe stomachaches which restricted her from eating solid foods or even drinking liquids. She was then immediately admitted to a hospital.
On x-ray examination, an unusual blockage with a hairy form was seen and the medical team decided to conduct an emergency operation to remove it.
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| A 9-pound hairball removed from Alekseeva's stomach (Source: australscope) |
“It was actually the only alternative, nothing else would solve the problem," surgeon Bahadir Bebezov said, according to the report of News.com.au.
Dr. Bebezov said Alekseeva has a bad habit of eating hair that she picks up from the carpet and also chewing her own hair tips.
"In fact her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out as soon as the wall of the stomach was cut," Bebezov said according to the Telegraph.
Alekseeva promised to stop her nasty hair-eating habit after she had undergone her first major surgery in her entire life.
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| Another 4-pound hairball removed from a 19-year-old girl in October 2012 |
From the report of Huffington way back October, 2012, a similar story was published where a 19-year-old girl had a 4-pound hairball removed from the stomach and small intestine by the surgeons in Indore, India.
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